{"id":296594,"date":"2026-09-30T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296594\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:48:08","slug":"pennsylvania-house-advances-bill-to-require-schools-to-consider-panic-alarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296594\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania House advances bill to require schools to consider panic alarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania House advances bill to require schools to consider panic alarms<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9\" aria-label=\"Tasmin Mahfuz profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790736488_433_ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9_1718896865.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Tasmin Mahfuz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Pennsylvania House has passed a bill that would require schools to consider installing silent panic alarms to improve emergency response.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The alarms would connect specific classrooms directly to law enforcement.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">House Bill 634, also known as &#8220;Alyssa&#8217;s Law,&#8221; is named after Alyssa Alhadeff, a 14-year-old who was killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The legislation will now move to the state Senate for consideration. If signed into law, Pennsylvania would join 13 other states that have enacted versions of Alyssa&#8217;s Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania House advances bill to require schools to consider panic alarms HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 The Pennsylvania House has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122614,122615,122616,5918,122617,122618,21464,28,30,9116,29,122619,40139],"class_list":["post-296594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-2018-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-shooting","tag-alyssa-alhadeff","tag-alyssas-law","tag-florida","tag-house-bill-634","tag-improve-emergency-response","tag-parkland","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-house","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-silent-panic-alarms","tag-state-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}